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Swing voters, we had been told at the time Senator Kerry named John Edwards as his running mate, would respond well to the vice-presidential candidate's "sunniness," his "optimism," his "small town roots."

Like the sunniness in his books that is always giving way to darkness — or barely concealing it — his humor forsook him now and then, especially as he grew old, and in its place there is deep sadness and a bottomless reservoir of rage.